Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr. Vera Sheridan

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Dr. Vera Sheridan

Biographical Details:

Dr Vera Sheridan is currently the chairperson for the MA in Sexuality Studies. Research interests focus on identity transformation in education, organisations and nations. She has worked extensively in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Southern Africa.. Dr Sheridan has researched adult second language acquisition as well as the process of long-term cross-cultural adaptation by members of the Vietnamese community in Ireland. Recent research has focused on sociocultural and political processes of inclusion/exclusion, equality and discrimination.

Research Interests:

Identity, social inclusion/exclusion, cross-cultural adaptation of refugees, intercultural marginality, inclusion in education. Member of the Migration and Interculturalism Initiative, DCU: www.dcu.ie/themes/migration.shtml

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

Selected Books

Selected Chapters

Reviews

  • Rampton, Ben. 2008. Crossing: language and ethnicity among adolescents. Bibliography of Translation Studies,
  • Kostouli, Trantafillia. 2006. Writing in context(s): textual practices and learning processes in sociocultural settings. Linguist List 17.1237,
  • Ramirez, D J, Wiley, T G, de Klerk, G, Lee, E & Wright,W E. 2006. Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate. Bibliography of Translation Studies,
  • Mel Duffy and Vera Sheridan, Cultures of Diversity, Sexual orientation in An Garda Síochána , 6th European Gay Police Association Conference, 28-JUN-12 - 29-JUN-12, Dublin Castle, Dublin
  • Vera Sheridan, Sociocultural encounters with refugees from communism: 1956 Hungarian and 1979 Vietnamese refugees in Ireland, Migration, ethnicity and identity: perspectives from the Celtic nations, , 02-APR-12 - 03-APR-12, University of Bangor, Wales.
  • Siobhan Dunne and Vera Sheridan, Hall of Mirrors: What a First Year Voice of Learning/Staff Collaboration can Tell us about the Student Transition Experience, Rethinking the First Year Experiences, 6th European First Year Experience Conference, 19-JUN-11 - 20-JUN-11, Manchester University, Manchester
  • Duffy, Mel and Sheridan, Vera, Exploring the narratives of older, hidden lives within a culture of heteronormativity, New Cultures of Ageing, 08-APR-11 - 09-APR-11, Brunel University, London
  • Duffy, Mel and Sheridan, Vera, Interpreting the space of the hospital ward, 18th Lesbian Lives conference: revolting bodies, politics and genders, 11-FEB-11 - 12-FEB-11, University of Brighton
  • Vera Sheridan, From (young) stranger to citizen: languages, cultures, identities and integration, One City One People - Integration: The Next Decade?, 24-SEP-10 - , Wood Quay Venue, Dublin City Council, Office for Integration
  • Sheridan, Vera and Dunne, Siobhan, The student as teacher - what a first year reflective journal can tell us about the student learning experience., Designing and Delivering Curricula for the Future, 26-AUG-10 - 27-AUG-10, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
  • Sheridan, Vera, Academic Cultures, English language and International Students: Diversity in an Irish Third Level Context, Tenth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations,Communities and Nations, 19-JUL-10 - 21-JUL-10, Queens University, Belfast
  • Sheridan, Vera, Vietnamese 'programme' refugees and new migration in Ireland, New migrations, new challenges: Trinity Immigration Initiative international conference, 30-JUN-10 - 03-JUL-10, Trinity College, Dublin
  • Sheridan, Vera, Coding and decoding textual fragments in the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Private lives, public personas: memoirs, diaries, biography, and personal narrative under Communism, 23-APR-10 - 24-APR-10, University College, Dublin
  • Sheridan, Vera, Sounds of Silence: presence and absence in a narrative of forced migration, Self, Selves and Sexualities, 19-MAR-10 - 20-MAR-10, School of Nursing, Dublin City University
  • Sheridan, Vera, From migrant to citizen: theory and experience in relation to the Vietnamese community in Ireland , Developing your Practice, National Adult Literacy Agency ESOL Conference , 11-JUN-09 - , National College of Ireland, Irish Financial Services Centre, Mayor Street, Dublin 1
  • Sheridan, Vera, Letters of love, life and fragmentation in an age of migration, Narrative, Memory and Ordinary Lives, 9th Annual Narrative, Memory and Identities Conference, 25-APR-09 - , University of Huddersfield
  • Sheridan, Vera, A double hiding of the self, Academic Identities in Crisis?, 04-SEP-08 - 06-SEP-08, University of Central Lancashire
  • Sheridan, Vera, The bitter and the sweet of nostalgia: memory, exile and Szabo Magda's The Door, International conference on Forging Identities: Past into Present, Identity Construction through Language, Culture and literature from the 18th to the 21st Century in Ireland and Europe, 15-FEB-08 - 16-FEB-08, Dublin City University
  • Sheridan, Vera, Diversity - The Old in the New: Tracing the Long-Term Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation among Members of the Vietnamese Community in Ireland, The Seventh International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 03-JUL-07 - 06-JUL-07, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Sheridan, Vera, Where is development located? Here, there, or everywhere? Cross-cultural implications for contact with `others¿ from the developing world, Linking the Global and the Local, education for development in a globalising world, 23-MAR-06 - 24-MAR-06, Dublin City University
  • Sheridan, Vera, With loneliness and satisfaction: narratives of Vietnamese refugee integration in Irish society, Private Troubles, public issues: the Irish sociological imagination, Sociological Association of Ireland annual conference, 22-APR-05 - 24-APR-05, Nenagh
  • Sheridan, Vera, With loneliness and satisfaction: narratives of Vietnamese refugee integration in Irish society, Double Vision, 18-MAR-05 - 20-MAR-05, University College Dublin
  • Sheridan, Vera, Loneliness and satisfaction: narratives of Vietnamese refugee integration in Irish society, Politics, plurilingualism, linguistic identity, fifth IALIC annual conference, 11-NOV-04 - 14-NOV-04, Dublin City University
  • Sheridan, Vera, Internal and external exile: three Hungarian authors, Lajos Zilahy, Sàndor Màrai and Imre Kertész, The local and the global: contested terrains, an interdisciplinary conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 24-SEP-04 - 25-SEP-04, Dublin City University
  • Sheridan, Vera, Loneliness and satisfaction: narratives of Vietnamese refugee integration in Irish society, Education, counselling and social work as factors of integration of immigrants and refugees in multicultural societies,, 05-JUN-04 - 07-JUN-04, School of Education, Warsaw University, with UNHCR, Warsaw
  • Sheridan, Vera, the Vietnamese Community in Ireland, Intercultural Spaces: language, culture, identity, 07-OCT-03 - 08-OCT-03, Dublin City University
  • Sheridan, Vera, Chaos or diversity? Language, culture and identity in the Vietnamse community, Interdisciplinary conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 22-FEB-02 - 23-FEB-02, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin
  • Sheridan, Vera, Chaos or diversity? Language, culture and identity in the Vietnamese community., Cultures in Conflict, 22-FEB-02 - 23-FEB-03, St Patrick's College, Dublin
  • Sheridan, Vera, Social distance and language training: a case study of the Irish-Vietnamese community., In: Lentin, Ronit ed.The Expanding Nation: towards a multi-ethnic Ireland, 22-SEP-98 - 24-SEP-98, Trinity College, Dublin, 55 - 65
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